fun test 1

Question 1

alcohol causes a(n) ____ in glutamate and a(n) _____ in GABA

Answer 1

decrease; increase

Question 2

THC marijuana is chemically similar to the neurotransmitter ____.

Answer 2

anandamide

Question 3

which of the following techniques allows psychologists to measure the brains electrical activity ad it sweeps across the scalp

Answer 3

EEG

Question 4

to monitor the amount of activity in different regions of the brain, psychologists would most likely use:

Answer 4

fMRI

Question 5

When a scientist says that her finding is “statistically significant” she means that the difference between the experimental and control conditions is:

Answer 5

not due to chance

Question 6

Insurance companies consider teenagers to be at greater risk for car crashes because a part of their frontal brain is missing. Which part?

Answer 6

myelin

Question 7

An axon is:

Answer 7

the extension of a neuron that carries messages away from the cell body

Question 8

the resting potential of a neuron refers to:

Answer 8

the electrical imbalance between the inside and outside of the cell

Question 9

To better understand the study habits of City College students, Dr. Nunez gives students in Bob’s class a c questionnaire to complete. Which research method is Dr. Nunez using?

Answer 9

survey

Question 10

why are participants in a survey sampled at random

Answer 10

to ensure that each individual from the population has an equal chance of taking the survey

Question 11

which letter is used to represent the correlation coefficient

Answer 11

r

Question 12

In a large group of moms, the following result was found:
The longer the moms had breast fed their children as infants, the higher the children’s IQ was at 8 years old. From this result we can conclude that breastfeeding during infancy _____.

Answer 12

predicts IQ scores in children

Question 13

___ is the threshold of a neuron that leads to the all-or-none response.

Answer 13

-55mV

Question 14

The three categories of psychoactive drugs that Bob talked about today are depressants, stimulants, and ______.

Answer 14

opioids

Question 15

. The brain’s own natural production of endorphins is likely to be suppressed by ______.

Answer 15

opioids

Question 16

Paralysis triggered by Botox is most likely to be reversed by a(n):

Answer 16

acetylcholine antagonist

Question 17

A negative correlation exists between:

Answer 17

self-esteem and depression

Question 18

What does it mean to manipulate a variable?

Answer 18

to turn a potential cause on and off

Question 19

Why are participants in an experiment assigned to conditions at random?

Answer 19

to minimize preexisting differences between participants in different conditions

Question 20

A researcher is investigating the effects of exercise on weight. What are the independent and dependent variables in this study?

Answer 20

dependent = weight; independent = exercise

Question 21

in ___, the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body

Answer 21

lateralization

Question 22

which skill is usually superior in the right hemisphere

Answer 22

recognizing the faces of classmates

Question 23

A picture of a cat is flashed briefly to the left visual
field and a picture of a mouse is flashed briefly to the
right visual field of a split-brain patient. The patient
will be able to use her:

Answer 23

right hand to indicate that she saw a mouse

Question 24

Rats placed in an enriched environment
develop more synaptic connections than rats
placed in an impoverished environment. This
best illustrates:

Answer 24

plasticity

Question 25

Infant motor development is typically
characterized by individual differences in __________
of
the major developmental milestones.

Answer 25

the age-related timing but not the sequence

Question 26

The tragic story of Genie shows the
importance of __________
in the development of
language.

Answer 26

critical period

Question 27

Three-year-old Carmen calls all four-legged animals
“kitties.” Her tendency to fit all four-legged animals
into her existing conception of a kitten illustrates the
process of:

Answer 27

assimilation

Question 28

the development of both object permanence and stranger anxiety rely on maturation in the childs

Answer 28

memory

Question 29

In the video on magic, 3-month-old Holly
scrutinized the impossible event (disappearing
Minnie Mouse). Even though Holly can’t yet speak
we know she is surprised by the event. We call her
behavior ______

Answer 29

dishabituation

Question 30

current reasearch on cognitive development indicated that:

Answer 30

mental skills develop earlier than piaget believed

Question 31

the video on monkeys showed that nervous protective moms tend to have infants who are

Answer 31

reactive

Question 32

monika has an avoidant attachment to her boyfriend. which of these statements most closely matches how she feels ab him

Answer 32

“I find it difficult to trust him”

Question 33

Infant monkeys with a _________
temperament can
show changes in behavior when raised by a ___________
parent.

Answer 33

reactive; easygoing

Question 34

a tiger mom has a(n) ______ parenting style.

Answer 34

authoritarian

Question 35

According to Erikson’s stages of psychosocial
development, if needs are dependably met,
infants develop a sense of basic _____.

Answer 35

trust

Question 36

a sequence of nucleotides that code for the amino acid sequence of a particular protein is called _____.

Answer 36

a gene